(October 6, 2012 at 5:46 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:This is fallacious. It's appeal to nature fallacy. "Other animals do this therefore we can." It takes an is and turns it into an ought. You could justify murder and rape with your same argument.(October 6, 2012 at 4:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They're tasty.
This.
Also - we are animals. Other animals eat other animals without ethical considerations (including those with higher intelligence). Suggesting that we are somehow different is also special pleading.
Pass the meat.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
